Two days ago marked six months since Hurricane Sandy plowed through our area. I simply cannot shake the thought of it this week. Maybe because it’s getting media coverage again. Or maybe it’s just because it’s still that bad. This is one of the photos that has stuck with me since that day. It was taken at the end of my street. It’s a photo of a man and his dog, with a towel and a suitcase. He had lost everything else.
If you’d like to see what the area looks like now, please take a look at my post from two days ago entitled Six Months After Sandy. I promise you, the slideshow is worth the look.
Or actually, I’ll save you the trouble and include it here to make things easier for you..
I took the photos in this slideshow myself between April 13 and 19, 2013. It will take a long time to recover from the bruises and the beating that we took. We will never be the same.
The beautiful ballad playing during the slideshow is “Where Do We Go From Here”, by the band Oleander. I heard it while driving the stretch of island between Bay Head and Seaside. It is the area that people not from this community may recognize as the one on the news, where the ocean met the bay. The words to the song seemed so fitting for our situation. I would like to thank the band Oleander (www.oleander.net / www.facebook.com/OleanderBand / @OleanderBand) for very graciously giving me permission to use the song “Where Do We Go From Here” as a part of this slideshow. It is a very kind and generous gesture that is truly appreciated, and only makes me love them even more. “Where Do We Go From Here” is on the new Oleander album entitled “Something Beautiful”, which dropped earlier this month. (My Something Beautiful album review.)
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Awwww…
That is very thought provoking. I’ve seen a lot recently in the news- 6mo anniversary.
6 months closer to recovery. Wishing you all the best!
Thank you Sheryl.
That’s so sad. It’s also a very common scene here every time a strong tropical storm passes. Happy WW.
Liz (mot)
Thanks Liz. Not a sight I ever thought I’d see at the end of my street, but then there’s so much that I thought I’d never see and have as a result of Sandy.
touching scene
It was heart-wrenching.
There is nothing like a dog to get one through even the most trying of times.
http://joycelansky.blogspot.com/2013/04/atoz-meets-ww-z-for-zombies.html
It’s so sad that things will never be the same. Living in Florida we’ve dealt with our fair share of hurricanes but I’ve never been through anything as bad as Sandy.
Susi, I know I’ve seen a number of really bad ones down there by you. Personally I never expected anything like this.
It must have been a horrible time!
Thank you!!!
Love your blog! Would love for you to link up on A Peek Into My Paradise T.G.I.F. Link Party on Friday!
Cathy @ http://apeekintomyparadise.blogspot.com/
Hu by and I gtry to go out about once a month to see how the barrier island and the mainland is progressing. Eavh bad weather event brings more to the surface. PR says the shore is up. I dare them to define the meaning. Sandy changed geography and history here.